Though, I must state for the record that I rather enjoy entering my LYS and asking the proprietors for bologna colored yarn. Their reaction? Priceless.

Anyhow, after sufficiently torturing the poor people behind the counter at my LYS with such a question, I made the decision to knit this shawl as opposed to crocheting it because I find that knitted fabric drapes better. Second, I needed to decide whether to add the olive slices into the piece using intarsia or to add them on later as appliques. After a bit of back and forth I chose to applique the olive elements for two reasons: (i) I did not want to see the wrong side of the intarsia on the shawl and (ii) I wanted the olive slices to have a three-dimensional quality. So in the end, I chose to crochet (more dimensionality than knitting and no dpns needed) the olives and sew them on later.

To finish off this wearable half slice of yarn-based bologna luuv, I crocheted a skin along the outer edge.

You are such a breath a fresh, but slightly processed meat-scented, air. Both choices on the knitting and crochet were right on. Intarsia would have made the olives just look like spots. But now on your shawl, like the loaf itself, the olives look somewhat out of place on there. Perfection.

regina, whilst i HATE olive loaf, but do love bologna (my unamerican parents never bought it) and i love love love the red tape around the outside. whilst it is very obviously olive loaf, it is also gorgeous in an abstract way. i would love to see you make some abstract wearables. and yes i am in to do a pippi longstocking project with you. crazy ones!